LDP Toyama chapter led by minister gets donation from bid-rigging firm, will return funds
A ruling Liberal Democratic Party chapter headed by Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi, state minister in charge of Okinawa and Northern Territories affairs, received political donations from a company involved in bid-rigging, data from the political funds reports of the chapter showed Thursday. The electoral district branch in ...
Japan Basketball Association officials apologize to Diet members for scandal
Officials from the Japan Basketball Association apologized to an all-party parliamentary group for the recent scandal involving members of the men's national team. Four players received a one-year suspension after they were found to have purchased the services of a sex worker in Jakarta during ...
More men pass entrance exams than women at 80% of Japan's medical schools: survey
The government released preliminary results of a survey on medical school entrance exams in the wake of a prestigious university admitting it lowered the scores of women to curb their enrollment.
Shinzo Abe's Kake Gakuen scandal refuses to lie down and die
Most people believe politicians lie, though the reflexive skepticism with which the current U.S. president’s pronouncements are met is probably exceptional. The secret to successful lying is to never admit to it in the slightest way. That rule of thumb has been challenged by a ...
Mitsubishi Materials president to step down over data tampering scandal
Mitsubishi Materials Corp. said Monday its president, Akira Takeuchi, will step down to take responsibility for a slew of product quality falsifications at the nonferrous metal group. Takeuchi, 63, will become chairman without representation rights and will be replaced by Executive Vice President Naoki Ono, ...
Tokio member Tatsuya Yamaguchi plans to leave pop group over kissing scandal
Tatsuya Yamaguchi, a member of Japanese all-male pop group Tokio, intends to leave the five-member band after coming under fire for kissing a high school student against her will, other group members revealed Wednesday. The remaining four members — Shigeru Joshima, Masahiro Matsuoka, Tomoya Nagase ...
Finance Ministry acknowledges sexual harassment and cuts former bureaucrat's retirement pay
Acknowledging he harassed a reporter, the ministry decides to trim the disgraced bureaucrat’s benefits with a penalty equivalent to 20 percent of a half year’s wages.
Prosecutors question key ex-Finance Ministry bureaucrat Nobuhisa Sagawa over document tampering
Public prosecutors have questioned former Finance Ministry bureaucrat Nobuhisa Sagawa on a voluntary basis over the ministry's falsification of documents related to the controversial discount sale of state land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen, informed sources said Monday. The special investigation squad of the Osaka ...
Niigata Prefecture Gov. Ryuichi Yoneyama resigned Wednesday over what he described as "misunderstandings" in relationships with several women, a move that is almost certain to influence discussions on whether to approve the restart of nuclear reactors in the region. Yoneyama has been cautious about the ...
The ministry says it will ask an independent lawyer to continue investigating the bureaucrat’s denials and the allegations made by Shukan Shincho magazine.
